World Corruption Index for 2018 is out .....

[D.B. Cooper]

Index to the most corrupt countries in the world has just been made public. I find the news shocking !!!
Argentina is nowhere on the list. Chile yes, Paraguay yes, Mexico yes,.... Argentina ???? No.
I'm always thinking that there's a lot of corruption here but then again maybe it's not so bad after all.
This Macri fella is just getting started !!!! Long live King Macri !!!

 

[nikad]

Index to the most corrupt countries in the world has just been made public. I find the news shocking !!!
Argentina is nowhere on the list. Chile yes, Paraguay yes, Mexico yes,.... Argentina ???? No.
I'm always thinking that there's a lot of corruption here but then again maybe it's not so bad after all.
This Macri fella is just getting started !!!! Long live King Macri !!!

Argentina is not regarded as a country anymore but an IMF subsidiary, that is why is not on the list

 

[Fdipo]

Argentina is not regarded as a country anymore but an IMF subsidiary, that is why is not on the list

Makes sense, since this report is from the World Economic Forum, which is essentially a neoliberal thinktank with close ties to the IMF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum#Criticism

This list is more a list of countries that are inconvenient to neoliberalism than anything else. It's a delegitimising tool, not anything objective. You can bet Argentina would be on the list if the current president was less economically open.

 

[steveinbsas]

I could not view the list of the 32 most corrupt countries thanks to my ad blocker (which is actually turned off).

Here's a list of 150 countries that ranks Argentina at 96:

https://www.ranker.com/list/the-most-corrupt-countries-in-the-world/info-lists

 

[Stantucker]

Makes sense, since this report is from the World Economic Forum, which is essentially a neoliberal thinktank with close ties to the IMF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum#Criticism

This list is more a list of countries that are inconvenient to neoliberalism than anything else. It's a delegitimising tool, not anything objective. You can bet Argentina would be on the list if the current president was less economically open.

It's all a vast conspiracy orchestrated by the US, the right and neoliberalismo to delegitimize these countries, even though some of these countries are actually neoliberal in orientation and allies of the US. Many of these countries and the left don't need any help in being delegitimized, they are doing a perfect job all on their own.

 

[Crema Americana]

The US should be on that list too, but might makes right.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

The US should be on that list too, but might makes right.

Hey! Don't leave us Brits off your list! We're really good at this corruption stuff but we hide it away rather well - on tiny islands in far away places.

 

[camberiu]

Makes sense, since this report is from the World Economic Forum, which is essentially a neoliberal thinktank with close ties to the IMF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum#Criticism

This list is more a list of countries that are inconvenient to neoliberalism than anything else. It's a delegitimising tool, not anything objective. You can bet Argentina would be on the list if the current president was less economically open.

In terms of economic freedom, Argentina ranks at #144, ahead of Gambia and behind the likes of Moldova, Tajikistan, Mongolia and Vietnam. Hardly a bastion of "neo-liberalism".

 

[garryl]

China should be number one, in terms of the amount embezzled. A local police chief in one of the districts in Shanhhai, has 2 billion cash (140 million dollars) in his houses. Hainan Airlines, a private company, is the biggest shareholder of Deutsche bank, it receives billions of loan from Chinese government insiders, it never plans to pay it back.
This guy, the chairman of a state owned bank/fund, has 39 millions of dollars cash in his 100 apartments, that's only part of his cash.
He also has 100 lovers (married/unmarried to screw around). To count his cash notes, the police burned many machines.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/pol...se-corruption-inquiry-finds-us39-million-cash

 

[camberiu]

Argentina is nowhere on the list. Chile yes, Paraguay yes, Mexico yes,.... Argentina ???? No.

Where did you see Chile on the list?